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AVAC’s Anabel Gomez and Shawn Malone have contributed a chapter, “Understanding HIV prevention in high-risk adolescent girls and young women in two South African provinces”, in the 22nd edition of the South African Health Review (SAHR).

This update contains background information and an action alert on index testing. While this approach to HIV testing (see below for a definition) has potential benefits for individuals and communities when it is done ethically, with consent and without coercion, it can also be aggressively implemented in ways that can cause harm to individuals, undermine their rights to consent, privacy, safety and confidentiality, and can erode the trust of communities with health care providers.

A new episode of our Px Pulse podcast is ready for download! 2020 Global Targets for Prevention Will Not Be Met: Now What? In this episode, hear about AVAC’s answers to this question in our analysis of the state of the field laid out in AVAC’s annual report.

Launched on World AIDS Day in December, AVAC has another installment of our blog carnival Generation Now Responds. In AVAC Report 2019: Now What?, we called out to young advocates, members of “Generation Now”, encouraging them to sustain their bold efforts in the fight against HIV.

AVAC's Kevin Fisher and CHANGE’s Bergen Cooper co-authored an op-ed studded with evidence about the devastating effects of the expanded global gag rule imposed by the Trump Administration. Read on to learn how this policy is costing lives and dragging down progress on HIV prevention and global health at large.

Join Treatment Action Group (TAG) and AVAC on Thursday, February 6, at 9am New York | 3pm Geneva | 4pm Cape Town | 7:30pm Delhi for a webinar featuring an update on recent vaccine results and possible next steps with M72/AS01E, one of several new TB vaccine candidates.

One of the most ambitious programs to roll out oral PrEP to populations at risk of HIV so far is Jilinde, and run by Jhpiego (a Johns Hopkins University affiliate). Jilinde has built in a robust evaluation process that continuously tests and changes its messages and outreach aimed at adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), among other populations.